Why permanent employment - a new form of laziness

Assistant vice president of Intercom Megan Sheridan (Megan Sheridan) finds that people are too obsessed with time and its distribution. So, they are trying to cover up this laziness. We offer to your attention an essay on the subject Megan.

Contrary to popular belief, time does not stop. Obstacle in the path to success - is you.

Time management and concentration are important, but they must influence the progress towards the goal. Factors constraining the degree of impactNot always obvious to you or anyone else's.

I assume that won time - a common mistake. permanent employment - that is the true outcome of the battle. And, even worse, we often confuse it with success.

Available all day to write emails, solving a particular problem, and be very "busy". But this is the wrong approach. After all, you can meet in person and 10 minutes to eradicate the problem. In the first case, you're just wasting your time, in the second - is affected. Loading itself meaningless work - is like being lazy.

Frankly, the work should not lead to fatigue and stress.

Try to rethink its approach, despite the fact that all over the world repeat: the more, the better. Why do a lot of work as soon as possible if you do not do it first class? Customers will not accept your hack just because "you had a lot to do." The game has changed. Your time is in your hands. Unpredictable part of your world, and your influence - is you.

What then stability? Ironically, in time. Time objectively: in the week of 168 hours, regardless of how you dispose of them. Count 7 hours a day do you spend on the dream and 55-60 hours per week - to work. It turns out, rest takes much longer than you thought. It's great, right?

Let's look at a segment of "work". Your influence is distributed over 55-60 hour period. Regardless of your position and value for the company, you are part of a common cause, you are counting. Roughly speaking, you are a product with certain obligations, certain supply and demand. You probably want to give a solid, stable results, and here are some things that you need to have in mind.

Quality or quantity? Either one or the other - choices that you will face over and over again. The answer lies in the question itself. Quality and performance are not mutually exclusive. Influence is not art. It's just a balance between actions and their usefulness. After all, you would not have to fight half-heartedly.

My favorite example to illustrate this situation, the way to Starbucks responded to the repeated requests of customers, "we need more coffee." They have developed a huge glass of beverage - Trent (trenta), 916 ml. He is 55% more than the usual cup and 16 ml more than it can accommodate at one time the human stomach. Logically, such a wasteful and exaggerated the company's response to consumer demand - not that other, as a caricature. But that's what we're all doing time. We "overdo" the problem, overusing and wasting resources on work that has already been done or is irrelevant. Instead of direct forces on anything else.

We are running on empty unnecessarily.

Such behavior leads to high costs. You've heard about emotional burnout. This is a true professional apocalypse. It is unlikely that you would have put into the process work plan unfocused work. So why turn it into your own task list? Be honest with yourself: what you need to do?

Manage time

• Keep a daily routine to understand of what he is. Share it with others. Pinpoint times when you'll be busy and unavailable.
• Keep a list of tasks. Use for applications Todoist, TickTick, Any. DO and others.
• Track your steps to understand what is really wasting time. For example, the application Reporter save and analyze the history of your life. You can gather this information quickly and painlessly.
• Ask yourself what you can spend half the time, but to achieve the same results? Never stop asking yourself this question. And actions.
• Plan units that meetings were sequentially. Include in your daily plan on time a single job.
• Pre-plan your schedule around and taking into account the upcoming events such as meetings, appointments, and so on. That between these events you can with particular force to direct the energy in the current task. Then you will feel that really affect the success.

Manage concentration

• Stay focused always on just one case.
• Turn off notifications. Close tabs and programs that you do not need at the moment. All this is distracting.
• Get rid of the need to make decisions that do not have values. For example, Mark Zuckerberg walking at all public events at the same t-shirt, so as not to expend energy to choose what to wear or what to eat. Try it and you will only affect what is really important.
• Periodically handle the administrative tasks, but do not interrupt the current. Work with almost an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, before going home.

Manage a team

• Do not go to those meetings, where your presence is not required. Always check, can I do without you.
• Attend meetings of the workers as much as you want. Do not hesitate to get up and excused himself to go, when the interests of your topic is exhausted.
• Install and follow the timing of meetings. For example, if Google Calendar you have allocated to the negotiations of 30 minutes, there must be no more than a minute.
• Interrupt the talks, when time is up. Meetings require fitness and discipline. If you took it on for 5 minutes, the source must meet.

The effect does not exist in vacuo. If you do not, no one realizes your potential.

Efficient use of time requires discipline, judgment and self-control. You must own and manage time inexorably. Carefully expose your focus and always work with absolute concentration. Do not be afraid to cut off the noise (with respect to the people who created them). The same applies to the inner "I": know when to release and when to reason with their ambitions. Be moderate.

Try to follow these tips a week, and then try again. Use what works for you, and remember that your behavior - it is always an indicator of your impact. Do the right things, prompted the right reason at the right time.

Energy and talent can propel you far, but the impact of the concentration will be with you the whole way.